CS345 - Revolution OS - Quiz

Please send me an email message by 12p EDT Saturday April 26th with your answers to these questions.

  1. Did any of the interviews change your own view of the history of Linux and/or open source software more generally? If so, which people and what did they say that you found "enlightening".
  2. What's your view of the Windows Refund event? Do you agree with the principle or not? Why, or why not?

  3. If you had to pick a spokesperson for the open source movement from the people interviewed in the movie who would it be? Why?

  4. Richard Stallman presents one view of open source software, Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens present a somewhat different one. Which of them do you find more persuasive? Why?